The Balochistan Education Support Project for Pakistan received a moderately satisfactory outcome rating with high risk to development outcome.
... Voir la suite The Bank received a satisfactory rating for their performance while the Borrower received a moderately satisfactory rating. Three restructurings took place throughout the course of this project. The first restructuring extended the project closing date 18 months to allow completion of construction activities under Component 1 of the Project. The second restructuring (i) Extended the project closing date another two years to allow for completion of construction of functional community schools under Component 1 and (ii) Reallocation of unallocated expenditure category to finance Community Implementation Partner contracts for extension period, to meet Balochistan Education Foundation (BEF) equipment and operational expenses during extension period, and to provide additional resources for school construction. The third restructuring reallocated funds originally allocated for the construction of a BEF office to cover expenses for office equipment for BEF staff (including monitoring equipment), a refresher teacher training course for community school teachers, and overdrawn Category 4 expenditure on support to construction of community schools. The following lessons were drawn from this project: (1) It is very important that the public sector commitment and ownership for the implementation and successful completion of any project are efficient. (2) The PECs when migrate or their children graduate, they have to quit the membership of the PEC. The PECs should be imparted with regular training every year or every second or third year. (3) In retaining children and teachers attendance, and increasing children enrollment and decreasing dropouts, community active participation is important. (4) Public sector institutions capacity to measure average annual increase in learning achievement in Language and Mathematics in Schools is weak. This needs to be built within institution, which deal with the education sector. (5) To retain teachers at Community Schools, their salaries need to be at the minimum equivalent to the minimum wage rate. (6) Capacity development support is crucial for ensuring timely and effective implementation of projects in provinces and regions that have limited public sector capacity, weak private sector presence and have deteriorating law and order situation. (7) Community School construction should be undertaken through professional engineering contractors under the supervision of PECs. (8) Early Childhood Education should be made a part of primary school teacher training. (9) Most importantly, the community school establishment design is far time and cost effective. The province is suffering from and alarming access issue. Education Department of Balochistan should adopt this design to ensure access throughout Balochistan.
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Bilan de fin d’exécution et de résultats ICR3246 JAN 30, 2015
Malnutrition among both women and children remains a major health issue in rural Pakistan. They also lack voice in relation to important health and nutritional decisions within their homes, for both themselves and their children, and they are systematically excluded from decision making at the community level.
... Voir la suite This study assesses the extent to which: (1) increasing the participation of women in the public sphere results in an increased use of health facilities, particularly for child and maternal needs, and in improved health outcomes; and (2) whether targeted interventions that provide information on health status and health behaviors needed for better hygiene and disease prevention are necessary for substantial improvements in health status, over and above any impacts of empowerment. This study builds upon an existing evaluation of a Pakistan poverty alleviation fund project (a World Bank supported community based development initiative) which investigates the impact of mobilizing communities into village support organizations (VSOs) and providing them with village level grants for community infrastructure development and livelihood enhancement. The health score card will provide specific information regarding minimum standards of service delivery and quality of care at the local level (basic health units (BHUs), primary health care (RHCs), and lady health workers (LHWs)). This will allow further exploration of additional impacts of increasing awareness through targeted information provision with and without a strengthening of the door to door delivery system via the LHW.
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The development objective of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Rural Livelihoods and Community Infrastructure Project for Pakistan is to improve livelihoods and access to basic service infrastructure in selected Agencies in FATA.
... Voir la suite Negative impacts includes: land acquisition; water pollution; loss of trees and crops; loss due to construction activities; solid waste; and soil erosion. Mitigation measures includes: 1) land if required for the scheme will be donated by the community on voluntary basis ; 2) selection of water source after laboratory analysis to ensure that it complies with the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) for drinking water; 3) employing good engineering/construction practices and due diligence during construction activities to avoid/minimize: soil erosion and contamination; release of polluted water/effluents; excessive noise generation near the communities; damage to crops and cultivation field; tree cutting, damage to public infrastructure (damaged infrastructure to be restored/repaired); damage to graveyards and other cultural heritage sites; and safety/health hazard for the community. the site will be restored and cleared of all debris/scrap/left over construction material after completion of construction works; 3) awareness raising of communities on the importance of safe drinking water and methods of water purification; 4) ensuring no blockage of drainage and sewerage; 5) ensuring no damage to cultural heritage sites and graveyards; 6) minimizing tree felling requirements to the extent possible; and 7) carrying out consultation with the beneficiary community, including women ensuring that the scheme is socially acceptable and suitable to women.
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The development objective of the Sindh Public Sector Management Reform Project of Pakistan is to strengthen public sector performance in the Province of Sindh through improved revenue generation and expenditure management.
... Voir la suite The Project consists of two complementary components: (i) results-based financing based on DLIs to provide an incentive for achieving eligible public sector management (PSM) reforms (US$ 40 million), and (ii) technical assistance to support activities for achieving DLIs (US$ 10 million). Results-based financing will disburse against agreed eligible expenditure programs (EEPs) based on DLIs in four reform areas: increasing tax revenue mobilization; enhancing performance of public financial management systems; strengthening public procurement performance, and improving management of the development portfolio.
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Document d’évaluation du projet PAD847 DEC 30, 2014